Blanck, Jacob.

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE VOL 1. HENRY ADAMS TO DONN BYRNE.

New Castle: Oak Knoll Press, 2003. small 4to. cloth. liv, 474 pages. Reprint of volume one with a new introduction by Michael Winship. A necessary reference set for any student of American literature. This set is being brought back in print with the permission of the Bibliographical Society of America. READ MORE about BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE VOL 1. HENRY ADAMS TO DONN BYRNE

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Blanck, Jacob.

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE VOL 3. EDWARD EGGLESTON TO BRET HARTE.

New Castle: Oak Knoll Press, 2003. small 4to. cloth. xix, 534 pages. Reprint of volume three. A necessary reference set for any student of American literature. This set is being brought back in print with the permission of the Bibliographical Society of America. READ MORE about BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE VOL 3. EDWARD EGGLESTON TO BRET HARTE

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Blanck, Jacob.

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE VOL 5. WASHINGTON IRVING TO HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW.

New Castle: Oak Knoll Press, 2003. small 4to. cloth. xxvi, 643 pages. Reprint of volume five. A necessary reference set for any student of American literature. This set is being brought back in print with the permission of the Bibliographical Society of America. READ MORE about BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE VOL 5. WASHINGTON IRVING TO HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

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Blanck, Jacob.

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE VOL 8. CHARLES WARREN STODDARD THROUGH SUSAN BOGERT WARNER.

Edited and Completed by Michael Winship.
New Castle: Oak Knoll Press, 2003. 4to. cloth. xxii, (iv), 519 pages. Edited and Completed by Michael Winship. Reprint of volume eight. A necessary reference set for any student of American literature. This set is being brought back in print with the permission of the Bibliographical Society of America. READ MORE about BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE VOL 8. CHARLES WARREN STODDARD THROUGH SUSAN BOGERT WARNER

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Cohen, Ben.

THE RIVER AND FIRTH OF CLYDE 1549-1993: A SELECTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY.

New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2008. 8.5 x 11 inches. cloth. 290 pages. Reprint of the out-of-print 1995 first edition, with index revised to include place names. This bibliography of the River Clyde and Firth of Clyde covers a period of over four centuries. The material derives from collections in libraries and institutions in London, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Clydeside and on the Firth. All items are collated in full, illustrations are itemized and engravings are..... READ MORE about THE RIVER AND FIRTH OF CLYDE 1549-1993: A SELECTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY

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Foxon, D.F.

ENGLISH VERSE, 1701-1750, A CATALOGUE OF SEPARATELY PRINTED POEMS WITH NOTES ON CONTEMPORARY COLLECTED EDITIONS.

2 volumes
New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2003. large 8vo. cloth. 302, 950. 2 volumes. First edition, second printing. A comprehensive catalogue of the separately printed English poems of the first half of the eighteenth century. Volume 1 contains some ten thousand entries, giving full bibliographical details and information on first lines, subject and the location of copies; many of the works listed are very rare and exist only in little-known collections. The author has personally..... READ MORE about ENGLISH VERSE, 1701-1750, A CATALOGUE OF SEPARATELY PRINTED POEMS WITH NOTES ON CONTEMPORARY...

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Gravell, Thomas, George Miller and Elizabeth Walsh.

AMERICAN WATERMARKS 1690-1835.

New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2002. 8.5 x 11 inches. cloth, dust jacket. 397 pages. First Edition. To research and photograph the practically invisible requires a unique technology and a curious intellect. A half century ago Thomas Gravell began a life-long study by collecting examples of early American watermarks. In 1979, he and George Miller published an interim edition which illustrated over 700 examples together with some thumbnail histories of the paper mills that..... READ MORE about AMERICAN WATERMARKS 1690-1835

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Isaac, Peter and Barry McKay (editors).

HUMAN FACE OF THE BOOK TRADE: PRINT CULTURE AND ITS CREATORS.

New Castle, Delaware and Folkestone, England: Oak Knoll Press and St. Paul's Bibliographies, 1999. small 8vo. Hardback printed covers. x, 228 pages. First edition. These thirteen scholarly essays on the history of the book trade are the third volume in the PRINT NETWORKS series of publications. The original papers were presented at the annual "Seminars on the British Book Trade." The essays covered include Paul Morgan's "Henry Cotton and W. H. Allnutt: Two Pioneer Book-Trade..... READ MORE about HUMAN FACE OF THE BOOK TRADE: PRINT CULTURE AND ITS CREATORS

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Isaac, Peter and Barry McKay (editors).

THE REACH OF PRINT, MAKING, SELLING AND USING BOOKS.

New Castle, Delaware & Winchester, England: Oak Knoll Press & St. Paul's Bibliographies, 1998. small 8vo. Hardback printed covers. 230 pages. First edition. Second volume of the series PRINT NETWORKS. More than a century has passed since W. H. Allnut's paper on provincial printing was presented at the meeting of the Library Association in 1878. This topic has now moved to the forefront of investigating the history of the book. The annual Seminar on the..... READ MORE about THE REACH OF PRINT, MAKING, SELLING AND USING BOOKS

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Johnson, Kevin R.

THE DARK PAGE: BOOKS THAT INSPIRED AMERICAN FILM NOIR, 1940-1949.

New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2007. 9 x 12 inches. cloth, slipcase. 384 pages. Deluxe version, limited to 110 copies, with a slipcase and a colophon page signed by Paul Schrader and Kevin Johnson. The literary origins of the American film noir cycle are more convoluted than a plot contrived by Raymond Chandler after a too-long night at Musso and Frank. Kevin Johnson has paired his obsessions with film and literature to illuminate even..... READ MORE about THE DARK PAGE: BOOKS THAT INSPIRED AMERICAN FILM NOIR, 1940-1949

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Keeling, Denis F. (editor).

BRITISH LIBRARY HISTORY: BIBLIOGRAPHY 1985-1988.

Winchester: St. Paul's Bibliographies, 1991. 8vo. printed paper over boards. x, 181 pages. First edition. This is the sixth volume in the well-established and highly acclaimed series, which covers the history of libraries, librarianship and book collecting in Great Britain and Ireland from the earliest times to the present day. The entries are arranged under five main headings: Librarians, Librarianship, Libraries (with ten sub-headings such as National, Private, Public, Special, etc.), Reading and Study of..... READ MORE about BRITISH LIBRARY HISTORY: BIBLIOGRAPHY 1985-1988

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Rostenberg, Leona and Madeleine B. Stern.

OLD BOOKS IN THE OLD WORLD, REMINISCENCES OF BOOK BUYING ABROAD.

New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 1996. 6 x 9.5 inches. cloth, dust jacket, slipcase. 184 pages. First edition. One of 350 special numbered and signed copies inserted in a cloth-covered slipcase. In their books Old & Rare and Between Boards, these two grand ladies of the bookselling world, Leona Rostenberg and Madeleine B. Stern, recounted many of their stories and hard learned advice gleaned from decades in the book business. This newest volume records..... READ MORE about OLD BOOKS IN THE OLD WORLD, REMINISCENCES OF BOOK BUYING ABROAD

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Spevack, Marvin.

JAMES ORCHARD HALLIWELL-PHILLIPPS: THE LIFE AND WORKS.

New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2001. 8vo. cloth, 624 pages. illustrated. This is the first book-length presentation of the life and works of James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, the eminent Shakespearean scholar. Halliwell was a man of prodigious energy and wide interests. His six hundred or so publications deal, not only with Shakespeare and early modern literature, but also cover mathematics, lexicography, the history of science, archaeology, and many other important subjects of his day. This..... READ MORE about JAMES ORCHARD HALLIWELL-PHILLIPPS: THE LIFE AND WORKS

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